This year, The Conversation celebrated the 50th anniversary of 1968 with its first podcast, 'Heat and Light.' These are some of the most interesting stories we uncovered – ones that still resonate in 2018.

Long read: How nature is fighting our attempts to use biohacking to live forever.

Research shows that so-called angel investors who write cheques to startups have a much bigger and more positive impact than governments providing ‘founding’ help to entrepreneurs.
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December 9, 2018

We urgently need to contemplate the myths we tell about ourselves and technology as a way of evaluating the relationship between the two.

Once lauded for their vision and promise, Silicon Valley giants have made life so hard for locals that residents regularly protest the companies, including their amenities like charter buses to save workers from the region’s terrible traffic.
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July 11, 2018